“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

“In America the president reigns for 4 years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.”

“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”

“In literature mere egotism is delightful.”

“There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community”

“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”

“To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful; for the appreciation of literature is a question of temperament not of teaching; to Parnassus there is no primer and nothing that one can learn is ever worth learning.”